A childhood, an era and a landscape - evoked in one of the best-loved autobiographies of the century. The England of Cider with Rosie is one 'of silence...of white roads, rutted by hooves and cartwheels, innocent of oil and petrol'. It is the rich, sensuous world of Lauree Lee's childhood and youth in a remote Cotswold village, a world that has mostly vanished. Described by H. E. Bates as 'a prose poem that flashes and winks like a prism', this loving and intimate record stands as both testament and elegy.
La Trilogía Autobiográfica Serie
Esta trilogía ofrece un viaje íntimo y poético a través de la infancia y la adolescencia en el pintoresco campo inglés. Captura las alegrías desenfrenadas de la naturaleza, las experiencias conmovedoras de crecer y las complejas dinámicas familiares a través de los ojos de un niño. La narrativa es rica en detalles sensoriales, nostalgia y la belleza atemporal de la vida cotidiana. Es una evocadora celebración de la memoria y la resiliencia que resuena profundamente en los lectores.
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Modern Classics As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
- 224 páginas
- 8 horas de lectura
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and knowing only the Spanish phrase for 'Will you please give me a glass of water?', he heads for Spain. With just a blanket to sleep under and his trusty violin, he spends a year crossing Spain, from Vigo in the north to the southern coast. Only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary peregrinations . . . 'He writes like an angel and conveys the pride and vitality of the humblest Spanish life with unfailing sharpness, zest and humour' Sunday Times 'There's a formidable, instant charm in the writing that genuinely makes it difficult to put the book down' New Statesman 'A beautiful piece of writing' Observer
Concludes the autobiographical trilogy begun in "Cider with Rosie" and "As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning".